Example sentences of "was from the beginning " in BNC.

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1 It was from the beginning very successful , which I take to be evidence of the growing sense that the established English synthesis was weakening , with a corresponding desire among students and teachers for new orientations .
2 Painting was from the beginning one of the most important instruments of conquest in the sphere of thinking , the mind .
3 But it was from the beginning an erotic exercise .
4 It was from the beginning an area of Birmingham rather than a self-contained town superimposed on the landscape , and its running and development have always been independent of the chocolate factory .
5 Basil 's widowed father , a natural son of the Earl of Sandwich , formed part of Wordsworth 's circle of London friends , and the proposal that Wordsworth and Dorothy should become responsible for the child was from the beginning an important part of their plans for life at Racedown .
6 In Christ all things have become new , and yet everything remains as it was from the beginning … ’
7 Nineteen twenty-two was from the beginning an uneasy year for the Coalition .
8 And it was from the beginning the case in a more general Marxist tradition , which has been especially active and , it should be stressed , diverse in recent years .
9 On his brief visit to Cambodia he met Dith Pran for the first time , but his longest stretch was from the beginning of January 1975 until the fall of Phnom Penh in April of that year .
10 The CNAA was from the beginning anxious to ensure progress towards greater democratic government in institutions , particularly , as we have seen , in the creation and proper functioning of academic boards .
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